On Truth

Truth is divided into 3 categories. At the first level is based on the Relative truth. This is done for examples by society that changes its attitude by the process of evolution and perhaps now if it wants also by design as Edward De Bono suggest we are all artist as Joseph Beuys and Novalis said. This is seen for example how something is seen by a process of time at time by society and by authority and how it changes by time. This is based on circumstance. The second level is Constructive truth which is basically is Mathematics and Logic. Mathematician and logician can more explain well this. This is because it starts from axiom such as 1+1 and we construct 2 (Gödel's incompleteness theorems, etc). This is very powerful within it area of application, but it is limited. The third is Perception truth. Everything is governed by perception as the mathematician logician and every person thinks with his Logic to make it more accurate as Friedrich Nietzsche stated in 1878 in Human, All Too Human thought "logic [came] into existence in man's head [out] of illogic, whose realm originally must have been immense. Innumerable beings who made inferences in a way different from ours perished". Thus there is the idea that logical inference has a use as a tool for human survival, but that its existence does not support the existence of truth, nor does it have a reality beyond the instrumental: "Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world". Perception is based on a believe system(a making sense of things the circular system in which belief sets perception that reinforce the belief as that is how Edward De Bono describe belief system in his book I am Right You Are Wrong), there is no law of contradiction it is neither right or wrong but rather absurd and moves also by feelings (the red hat in Edward De Bono’s Six Thinking Hat) and also objectivity and experience as we look at the world while our mind organise what we are seeing at the moment as the behavior is of a self-organising patterning system that is totally different from the table top logic of traditional reasoning I am Right You Are Wrong states again. Language is just a form of constructed description tool for communication which means a limitation of language and the imperatives of the media and yet a great power to change sentiments. Thus we can have a description done by language that construct reality as it affects perception or do a model that should embody mathematical reasons for example. But still there is no truth in perception maximum a proto truth that is an absolute that we hold so long as we are trying to change it as Edward De Bono suggests.

Also Language for Edward De Bono in his book I am Right You Are Wrong states that language is a poor thinking system, yet it dominate our thinking till know and it create the seductive dichotomies which we need and create in order to operate the logical principle of contradiction of good/evil, Either/or, us/them etc. Jacques Derrida the inventor of Deconstruction also created the theory of binary oppositions that is a belief in pairs and opposites and of one of the pairs that is suppressed while the other is brought above thus for him good has no meaning unless evil exist thus this is because we are in the Constructive age rather than the Perceptual age.

We think with language...